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When Hitler’s Germany took Luxembourg
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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
AFTER the invasion of Luxembourg by the fascist German Wehrmacht on May 10 1940, the military administration ordered a ban of all political parties. Contrary to the bourgeois parties, including the Socialist Workers’ Party, the Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL) took the decision to continue the fight illegally.
After Hitler had been brought into power by parts of German big business and financial capital, the KPL had started to push its anti-fascist propaganda with its weekly journal Volksstimme (People’s Voice). The party supported its German comrades the KPD to transport illegal materials into Germany and helped with the reorganisation of the KPD group in Trier.
Luxembourg communists used football matches or religious events, where many Germans took part, to distribute leaflets against Hitler. The party was also active in recruiting volunteers in 1936 to go to Spain and to fight in the International Brigades against the fascist troops.
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